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SESSION 12:
DISSEMINATION

SATURDAY, November 27, 2021

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SUNDAY, November 28, 2o21

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Description

Formed in entanglement: knowing, writing, publishing

A WORK GROUP LEAD BY Marc Herbst
with Pascale Ife Williams, Stevphen Shukaitis, and Claudia Firth

"Formed in entanglement: knowing, writing, publishing" pragmatically surveys the processes of academic and arts-based publishing, and conceptually and creatively explores knowledge’s development, articulation and documentation towards its eventual dissemination in constellations formal (in print) and informal (within social life). Drawing from readings, guest lectures, discussions and exercises and Marc’s experiences in community-based practice and independent publishing, this workshop pragmatically expands on a community-based knowledge practice that methodologically recognizes both being and research as embedded research, that any thinking and ordering is editorial and academic, and that designing and displaying is publication. This workshop understands that being is entangled in the world, and life’s agonistic practice is its creativity. Within this context, there will be a lectures and demonstrations on academic and arts publishing, eco-social design and activist learning and listening practices by Dr. Stevphen Shukaitis, Dr. Pascale Ife Williams and Dr. Claudia Firth. The workshop will connect embedded research methodologies to a way of editing as arts-based research. Workshop attendees will be invited to creatively engage with the workshop’s conceptual and practical material and share how it connects to their research.

Here, in the context of Transart’s dispersed learning model and the student’s different focuses and approaches, we may explore the meaningful differences between situated and general knowledge and ways these differences may play out in theory and also in publication design.

Through the short workshop’s timeline, we will aim to articulate an editorial concept, workflow, and then project content and design that might result in a quick one-off publication.

Marc Herbst is an broadly interdisciplinary researcher, artist, editor/publisher and sometimes activist whose core experiences are built upon work on the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest he co-founded in Los Angeles in 2000. His often collaborative, often embedded practice is and grounded by DIY social practice, and engaged with social transformation oriented toward ecological and justice-based horizons. He calibrates cultural praxis with contemporary thought related to cultural and political movements and in dialog with fine art and critical and cultural theory. He's an MFA from CalArts and a PhD from Goldsmiths. Herbst has taught at the University of California San Diego, National Academy of Fine Arts Milan, and lectured and led workshops in Yale, UC Santa Cruz, the Danish Royal Academy and elsewhere. In addition to work with thee internationally situated Aesthetics & Protest collective, he is a member of the NachbarschaftsAkademie experimental garden in Berlin where, with Michelle Teran he is developing a project around conflict resolution and dreaming, “To Sleep Together in Common, Which is Political”. He is just back from the margins of the unfortunately failed Glasgow COP26 Climate summit where he helped launch the book that he co-edited and co-published with Pluto Press, We are Nature Defending Itself, Entangling Art Activism and Autonomous Zones, authored by Jay Jordan and Isa Fremeaux. He is currently working on a project looking at the form of what stands, relationally, between people in a dance space in Leipzig, where he lives.

With Guest: Dr. Stevphen Shukaitis Reader in Organisation Studies, University of Essex https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/shuka90902/stevphen-shukaitis Publisher of Minor Compositions Press/Autonomedia https://www.minorcompositions.info

Marc Herbst’s Bio | Site
CLaudia Firth bio | SITE
Stevphen ShukaitiS BIO | SITE
Pascale IFE WILLIAMS | Site

Syllabus

THE POROUS BODY
AN IMPROVISATION-BASED MOVEMENT WORKSHOP with
LOUIS LABERGE-COTE

"The Porous Body" is an improvisation-based movement workshop open to all, regardless of previous dance and movement experience. Through a series of somatic, meditative and mental imagery games, we will explore the non-fixity of our minds and bodies while fostering the ability to enjoy working with paradox and impossibility. How might the conscious cultivation of contradiction within one’s physical practice foster an understanding of deep-rooted collaboration within oneself? How might this embodied experience of cooperation within paradox contribute to a more compassionate society? By listening to our bodies, we will nurture an empathic atmosphere where we investigate the dance between light/dark, inner/outer, and bound/unbound, searching for a heightened sense of vibrancy, delicacy, poetry, resilience, and creativity.

Louis Laberge-Côté is an assistant professor of dance at Ryerson University since July 2018 and is a Toronto-based dancer, choreographer, teacher and rehearsal director. He has danced nationally and internationally with over 30 companies, and has been a full-time member of Toronto Dance Theatre (1999–2007) and the Kevin O’Day Ballett Nationaltheater Mannheim (2009–11). He has created over 80 choreographic works, which have been presented and commissioned in Canada and abroad. His work has garnered him a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Choreography, and ten other individual and ensemble nominations for performance or choreography. He holds an MFA in Creative Practice from Transart Institute/Plymouth University (UK). His research is centred on contemporary dance and somatic training. His writings have been published by the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, Choreographic Practices, The Dance Current, and the Calgary Beacon and have been shared by schools, universities and blogs in Canada and abroad.

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